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Jack Sheppard (1702 -1724) Engraving by George White (1728)  based on a portrait by James Thornhill (1724) I. I have to admit...

"All is dust and lies. So much the worse for the men who get in my way.  Men are mere stepping-stones to me. As soon as they b...

Detail from a portrait of Laura Thistlethwayte (née Bell)  by Richard Buckner (1871) "She had a small doll-like face, piquant a...

Emma Crouch (aka Cora Pearl)  (1836 - 1886) The story goes that, ignoring her grandmother's warnings about taking up with str...

Michael Marder (2011) II. Vegetal Existentiality The existential domain (of time, freedom and wisdom) is usually reserved for man...

Front cover design by Evan Gaffney In part one of this post I discussed the introduction and epilogue to Michael Marder's Plan...

I. Sometimes, despite having the best of intentions, it can take five or six years to get around to reading a book and Michael Marde...

Photo of Albert Camus by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1944):  with his upturned collar, cigarette, and slicked back hair,  Camus embodied ...

Isabelle Adjani: Pull Marine   (music video dir. Luc Besson, 1984)  Click here to watch I think the first work I tried to re...

Agnès Gayraud / Photo: Vincent Ferrané It's hard not to love the French philosopher and singer-songwriter Agnès Gayraud; she...